Tabula Rasa

A clean slate...

Author's Note

Tabula Rasa is a Latin term meaning "blank slate." Aristotle used the metaphor of a wax tablet that starts as blank and is written upon by experiences and knowledge, suggesting that the mind begins without any pre-existing ideas. The New Year is a fresh, blank slate.

Reviews

[Stella Armour]

Mother Shipton's prophecies came to mind, amazing how that happened, perhaps because i read it out loud ?
Love this Craig, the presentation is perfect.

Stella

[An owl on the moon]

Ah, Stella... thank YOU. What wondrous visions she beheld... hoping that the whispers in this new year bring hope and healing.

[Stella Armour]

For you too Craig ...

Stella

[Writergurl]

I think we all need a clean slate, what good is a New Year if there wasn't one.
It's a time to start all over again and try not to make the same mistakes twice.
Its' a brisk walk to a new wonder land out there in a new year. Make it a happy
wonderful one.
This is an amazing write.

[An owl on the moon]

Yes... it's true. I know I so need that clean slate when the New Year comes. May it be... all that and more. THANK YOU!

[Kelly Scheppers]

Your presentation gives quite an impact, Craig. Yes, we are all afforded a clean slate at the beginning of the year. I'm the melancholy one though, who still holds on to yesterday, and all that used to be. It's so good to see you back at what you do best. Happy new year!

[An owl on the moon]

Hi Kelly! So glad you were by again! And I do understand the holding on... especially to things good and beautiful. A very Happy New Year to YOU!

[Starr]

Ah< well thank you for the insight in your Author's note, well then I hope you have a fresh start to your new Year. I've heard of Aristotle but never really studied about him. I enjoyed your write and background. That is pretty cool how you do that. Awesome write

[An owl on the moon]

Thank you so much for your kindness! If needed, so hoping you find a sweet and fresh start for your New Year. I could really use one! ✨🌞✨

[Starr]

Me too, If I didn't have to work so much anymore it would be a better one. Have a great day.

[poetgurl]

Love the image in this write, This is really good.
A new year, a fresh start. Well said

[An owl on the moon]

So grateful you were by. Wishing you a happy fresh start for the year! 🎉🎉🎉

[Lorry]

Nicely captured Craig.
At this time of year, we all get a chance to refresh snd reset our pages and hope our resolutions are more resolute than last years.
Well here's hoping they are! 😃

[An owl on the moon]

Thank you, Lorry! I know for some it's just another day... but I for one always need a fresh start. The happiest to you! 🥳

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I first learned of this term from Clive Barker in one of his novels, Imajica. He had it as the name of a secret organization whose members had their identities wiped. Wouldn't it be nice to reset the future without the past interfering? But history always has a way of finding its path into the future, one way or another. I was just looking at a documentary on catacombs under Paris where millions of skulls and skeletons are haphazardly buried together. Each of them had a story, a life and now they are forgotten. Time moves on until it moves on without us.

[An owl on the moon]

Ah, Fabian, I simply love the Clive Barker Abarat series... so I must look up Imajica. And yes... the older I get, the more I realize so many memories shared are now only mine... and they will be gone one day... Hoping our words here... our lives in letters... might keep us alive just a little longer. Happy New Year, my friend. Truly.